what happened to carlos in descendants

Carlos de Vil is the son of Cruella de Vil in Descendants , and in the story he is later treated as having died off-screen before Descendants: The Rise of Red. The franchise does not clearly explain his death in canon, but the actor who played him, Cameron Boyce, died in 2019 after a seizure related to epilepsy.

What the movies show

• Carlos appears in the first three Descendants films as one of the original VKs.

• In later Descendants material, characters refer to him in the past tense, which confirms he is no longer alive in-universe.

• The movies avoid spelling out the exact cause of Carlos’s death.

Why fans talk about it

• The character’s absence is closely tied to Cameron Boyce’s real-life death, so the franchise chose not to recast him.

• Descendants: The Rise of Red includes a tribute line about what “Carlos would have wanted,” which is the main on-screen acknowledgment of his absence.

Simple answer

Carlos didn’t get a detailed death scene in the story; he is just understood to have died before the events of the newer Descendants installment, and the films handle it as a respectful off-screen loss.